23rd March 2025

Fast Asleep on a Wine-Dark Sea

“By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?” – Adam Smith (1723-1790).

Spread your green leaves 
All of them are at risk 
Bombs and bullets 
Hepatitis and polio 
Glow beneath the sun 
Will you help stop 
Destroying people’s lives? 
Elderberry Wine 
Its finest moment is 
Being drunk

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